Category: General

Pacific Cup Day 8 – Waves – Friend or Foe?

It’s been all about the waves. Today we had a bit of everything. I screamed obscenities at the waves, I loved the waves. We had the A4 up in 25 knots doing steady 10-11’s with long surfs up to 15, but couldn’t fly a spinnaker in 20 knots earlier because of the waves. Spadefoot seems

Pacific Cup Day 7 – Halfway Means Halftime

It’s been a rough 24 hours. There’s more wind than we want, bigger seas than we want, and a few items at home that we wished we brought (notably, our little whisker pole for poling out headsails. We tried valiantly to keep the A4 going, and we could for a while, but it was one

Pacific Cup Day 5 – Feast & Famine

I thought was going to talk about waves today, but that will have to wait. So many things happended in the last 24 hours. First, yesterday afternoon we put up the A4 spinnaker, a slightly small heavier kite that we love. It signalled the beginning of the downwind conditions for the rest of trip to

For Jordan

So many things have gone through my head today that I wanted to write about, but first I have to start by remembering that 2 weeks ago today we said goodbye to our beloved 14 year old puppy Jordan. Chris & I talked about that today, for the first time this trip. For those that

Pointing at Hawaii Now

After our brief tour of Southern California the winds have conspired to allow us to point towards Hawaii now. We received position reports this morning and it was mostly good news. First, Mirador, the Antrim 27 in our class did start. They must have started a few hours late? Great to have them out here.

Like we were shot out of a cannon

We got to the start with no issues and had a nice sail in 15-20 knots out under the Golden Gate. Our division is down to 5 boats. Once out, we dodged whales to get to the synoptic breeze on a west-southwest course. We’ve been doing 1-hour watches because helming is really physical – we

T-Minus 1 Day

Phew!  It’s been a busy 3 days for us.  Actually wish we had one more day to catch our breath before heading out.  Preparations were typical – including a last minute gasket replacement for the fuel tank and a leaking brand new 25 gallon water bladder that required us to rethink how we would store

Nice write-up for the Pac Cup Doublehanders

Below is a link to Scuttlebutt’s introduction of the two Doublehanded divisions for Pac Cup 2016 (that would be us!). Doublehanders Intro  

New video – Spadefoot offshore

Videos never ever do the sailing justice, but here is a video to share what the California trip was like. Thanks to Rachel and Oren for contributing content (especially since the Go Pro was forgotten in the sleep-deprived haze that Justin experienced trying to get to the airport after racing).

600 miles, and we are still in Austin

Over the last 10 days we’ve made 10 trips to Austin Yacht Club.  AYC is 30 miles from our house, so that is 600 miles.  Oof.  That’s a lot of time sitting in the car/truck. The good news is that we absolutely killed it.  Boat hauled, emergency rudder installed, bottom stripped, bottom painted, bottom sanded,

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